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Thomas Ollive Mabbott PapersEnglish professor. Correspondence, subject, and research files documenting Mabbott's scholarly pursuits and his hobbies. It is primarily made up of research files relating to Edgar Allan Poe.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edward Charles Mabie PapersProfessor and Head of Speech and Dramatic Art. Director of University Theatre. Regional director of Federal Theatre Projects of the WPA. First president of the American Educational Theatre Association and a pioneer in the development of regional theatre.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Hugh C. MacDougall Collection of Progressive Party PapersMacDougall was a collector of materials from the Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign on the Progressive Party ticket. Includes broadsides, correspondence, and speeches, as well as Progressive Party statements, meetings, and brochures.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

W.F. Main PapersBusinessman, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Business and personal correspondence, financial statements and reports, legal papers, memoranda, photographs, and keepsakes concerning Main family and its personal and business affairs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Frank Malcolm LettersLetters to Malcolm's wife, describing experiences in Georgia and elsewhere with the 7th Regiment of Iowa infantry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dessa Manion Music CollectionTranscripts of lyrics of popular songs and folksongs made by Miss Manion, some sheet music, and a card index.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Mann Family PapersCivil War letters and military records of Asahel Mann, Jr., John Mann, and William Mann, all of whom were members of Co. A, 4th regiment, Iowa Cavalry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Eugene Mannheimer PapersRabbi and civic leader of Des Moines, Iowa. Reminiscences.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Joan Mannheimer PapersDrake University graduate and instructor in sociology. Co-founder of the Friends Development Council, University of Iowa Museum of Art. Correspondence and unpublished manuscripts.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

March for Women's Lives, Iowa Delegation, recordsOn April 25, 2004, pro-choice activists went to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March for Women's Lives, a protest against the pro-life policies of President George W. Bush's administration.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Marion Maresh papersPhysician who graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1932 and became a world authority on physical growth and maturation.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Phillip Margolin PapersAmerican and foreign editions, manuscript materials, publicity materials, periodical appearances, and clippings for this lawyer-author of legal thrillers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Willard Marsh PapersGraduate of the Writers' Workshop, a musician and an English professor.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Lenore Marshall PapersDraft of the novel The Hill is Level and drafts of twelve poems.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Alta Martin papersHomemaker and mother of five who received her private pilot license in 1963.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

George Willard Martin PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of botany and editor of several scientific journals.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

John Martin M.D. Ph.D. PapersNeurosurgeon and book collector specializing in rare medical books. These papers primarily concern Dr. Martin's association with the University of Iowa. The establishment of the John Martin Rare Book Room and the donation of his collection of rare medical books is well documented with correspondence, clippings, brochures, etc. Some autobiographical sketches are included along with records of Dr. Martin's military service.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Vernon Richard Martin PapersMaytag executive and State Chairman of the Republican Party in Iowa. Primarily correspondence and subject files relating to his political work for the Republican Party.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Francoise Martinet papersBallerina and professor of dance at the University of Iowa from 1978-1997.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Adella Martinez papersA former resident of Cook's Point, Davenport, whose parents emigrated from Mexico to the United States in the early 1900s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Maria Cano Martinez papersMaria Cano came to Iowa from Guanajuato, Mexico, with her parents in 1928. She established a Spanish language interpreter program at the University of Iowa Hospitals in 1975.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Kate Martinson papersJournals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Dora Mason papersSculptor and art teacher who traveled and studied sculpture across Europe and North America.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Charles Paul May PapersNotes, source materials, drafts and proofs for two non-fiction books: Bats. (1969) and Stranger in the Storm (Abelard-Schuman, 1972). Original title: Birds Flying High.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Wiley Mayne PapersU.S. Representative from Iowa, 1967-1975. Campaign and office files relating to his political career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Byron McClain LettersLetters to McClain's family in Wilton Junction, Iowa, telling of experiences in Tennessee with the 2nd Regiment of Iowa Cavalry.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Emlin McClain PapersLawyer, judge, and professor. Personal and business correspondence, diaries, and speeches on painting. Most of the material dates before 1880, while McClain was a law student at the University of Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

John Thomas McClintock PapersHead of Psysiology Department from 1904 to 1944. Established the Museum of Medical History. Correspondence and biographical sketches relating to the College of Medicine.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Charles H. McCloy PapersUniversity of Iowa professor of physical education, 1930 to retirement. Research specialty in anthropometry, or the analysis of motor skills.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Margaret McCollum papersDes Moines resident who was a leader in women's organizations including American Mother's Inc., PTA and AAUW.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

James McCracken PapersA collection of photographs of McCracken's paintings, along with other photographs, cards, and newspaper clippings.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edward A. McDermott PapersLawyer, co-chairman of Iowans for Kennedy (1960), and director of the Office of Emergency Planning, 1962-1965. Reports, speeches, press releases, subject files, and correspondence relating to his career in government service during the 1960s.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Francis McDermott Family PapersSoldier, 13th Regiment of railway engineers, U.S. Army, in W.W.I. Correspondence, picture postcards, and photographs.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

McDill Family PapersIowa farm family. Correspondence and business papers of Joseph Black McDill, George R. McDill, and John Ronald.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

James W. McDill PapersU.S. Representative and Senator from Iowa, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and judge. Diaries, memoirs, correspondence, speeches, and other material relating to his life and career.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Julie McDonald PapersNewspaper Editor and writer, this collection contains material related to two novels (Amalie's Story, 1970 and Petra, 1978), a play (Eyes of Sky; a Play in Six Scenes) and a biography (Ruth Buxton Sayre: First Lady of the Farms, 1980).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Margaret McDonald papersActive in Republican Party and vice-chairman of the Iowa Republican Central Committee in 1970.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Sharron L. McElmeel PapersPapers of the nationally-known children's and young adult literature scholar.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

McGill Family papersThe collection consists mainly of correspondence and includes the papers of early twentieth century labor activist, IWW member, and Buffalo school teacher, Pearl McGill.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

McIlvaine Family PapersCorrespondence of a Faribault, Minnesota, family.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Mary McInroy papersHome Economics notebook kept by McInroy as a high school student in 1961.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Harold McKeen PapersA scrapbook of photographs from the 1921 or 1922 Dominion Chautauqua season in the Western US and Canada, taken by the properties manager, who was responsible for leading the crews who set up and took down the tents.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marshall McKusick PapersProfessor, University of Iowa Department of Sociology and Anthropology, from 1960 until 1996. State Archeologist from 1960 until 1975. Researched prehistoric Native American Indian cultures. Publications.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Amelia McNeill papersFarm woman who served as secretary of Monona Co. Rural Electrification Association for more than 20 years.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Mead Family PapersCivil War correspondence and pension records of an Iowa County family. Some of the topics of correspondence include the Battle of Corinth, Copperheads in Iowa, Black troops, and farm life in Iowa.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marion Meade Woody Allen Research FilesResearch material for The Unruly Life of Woody Allen. Comprised of interviews by letter and on tape, journal articles, research files, notes, films, photographs, manuscript copies, and copies of the completed book in various editions.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marjorie Medary PapersEditor and author of books for young adults. This collection drafts and other materials relating to Prairie Printer (a sequel to Buckeye Boy), about a pioneer northeast Iowa newspaperman; Orange Winter, about Florida in the 1870's; College in Crinoline and Prairie Anchorage, both of which have pioneer settings, and some other works.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Medieval ManuscriptsThis collection brings together all Medieval Manuscripts held in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Yipao Mei PapersProfessor and head of Oriental Studies 1955-1968, and director of Center for Far East Studies 1968-1970.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Norman C. Meier PapersProfessor of psychology, University of Iowa, from 1923 until 1964. Designed tests to measure artistic aptitude, and audience response. Correspondence, photographs, lectures.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Cornelia Meigs PapersChildren's author and Iowa's first Newbery Award winner. This collection consists of a manuscript and various clippings. Iowa Author Mss.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Jonas Mekas Collection of Fluxus FilmsLithuanian-American avant garde film maker and critic. This collection is comprised of nearly one linear foot of Fluxus film loops.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Lynda Mendoza Collection of David McCallum MemorabiliaCollection of materials related to the actor David McCallum, assembled by the president of his official fan club. Materials include books, posters, ephemera, photographs, audio and visual recordings, and other items.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Edwin T. Meredith PapersAttorney and Iowa state legislator. Subject files and correspondence concerning his business, family and political career. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence dealing with business conditions during the 1920s and W.W.II, politics, family life.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Martin Mericle LettersPersonal letters describing Martin Mericle's Civil War experiences while serving with the 114th Ohio Infantry Regiment. Also includes and account book, 1863-1875.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Thomas W. Messenger PapersWorld War I soldier. Letters written by Messenger during his service in W.W.I. He was a corporal in Co.B, 111 Machine Gun Battery in France, after the armistice was declared.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Robert Metzler "Colombo" DiariesWriter and producer Robert Metzler was hired in March 1975 to work on the NBC television series Colombo starring Peter Falk. He continued on the show into 1977, making near daily diary entries that record behind-the-scenes activity in great detail.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marie Schultz Meyer papersPostville, Iowa, native who graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing in 1940.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Joe Michaud PapersWriting materials of an Iowa City writer. Also includes a Border Collection, which comprises most of the collection, on the Iron Curtain countries.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

William D. Middleton PapersProfessor of Physiology, Microscopic Anatomy, Surgery, Clinical Surgery, among other medical fields. Dean of the medical faculty. Associated with the Medical Department from 1870 to 1902.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Midwest Federation of Chaparral Poets (Iowa Chapter) recordsThe Iowa Chapter of Chaparral Poets met twice yearly (fall and spring); they studied poetry, conducted a poetry contest and wrote poetry for submission to Midwest Chaparral magazine. The organization was formed in 1942 and disbanded in 2001.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Ada Holding Miller Sheet Music CollectionNearly 200 pieces of sheet music for popular songs, organized topically (Transportation, Tear Jerkers, War, Religious, Love, etc.). The pieces range in date from 1840 to 1968, but the bulk of the collection was published between 1861 and 1915.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Ellen Mowrer Miller papersCorrespondence of 19th century Iowa woman includes letters from brother in medical school and Civil War and from sister who raised a family and maintained a farm.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Frank Miller PapersEditorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register. 100 original drawings, cartoons with over-lays and color processes, engraving printing plates, correspondence, photos and other papers.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

James Miller PapersCivil War naval engineer. Documents concerning his military service on Navy gunboats on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Also includes materials relating to his mechanical inventions in the late 1880s.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Marion Miller PapersState University of Iowa student, 1939-1943. Journals.Repository: University of Iowa Archives

Merle Miller PapersEditor at Yank, Time and Harper's, biographer of presidents, script writer, and novelist. Drafts, correspondence, printer's copies, and reviews for four of his books; the materials for The Sure Thing (1953) are extensive.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Opal Miller papersDemocrat, educator and clubwoman who served in the Iowa House of Representatives in the 1970s.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

James Cutler Milliman PapersStudent at U of I, Civil War soldier, Lt. Governor of Iowa. Photographs and letters written about the University of Iowa, Harrison County, Iowa and New York.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Estera Milman Contemporary Art CollectionPrimarily ATCA administrative files containing a vast amount of information on the sources of the ATCA collections and detailed records regarding grants won by and exhibitiions curated by ATCA staff prior to 2000.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dorothy Misbach papersEducator whose lifelong career of working with partially seeing and blind students began in 1938 at the Perkins School for the Blind in Massachussetts.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Mississipppi River Power Company PapersBuilding a dam across the Mississippi River at Keokuk, Iowa as pictured in a series of 94 large photographs (58) and photograph postcards (36) of the project, 1911-1913. Images, 6 x 9 to 8 1/2 x 11 inches, picturing phases of the project from scenes of the city and countryside before the dam's construction through activation. Accompanied by Electric Power from the Mississippi River (Keokuk, IA: Mississippi River Power Company, May 1911, Bulletin No. 2), a status report on the construction to that time.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Azalia Mitchell papersMitchell and her husband operated the Community Pharmacy in Des Moines for 25 years.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Donald J. Mitchell PapersLawyer and Democratic National Committeeman from Iowa. Primarily correspondence and subject files relating to his political work for the Democratic Party.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Clarence W. Moody PapersEditor and publisher of the Burlington Hawk-Eye, civic leader. Newspaper clippings, correspondence, speeches, etc., concerning the newspaper and the Burlington, IA area, with information on the Great River Road Project of the 1960s.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Moore Family PapersPioneer family, settled in Johnson Co., Iowa, 1840s. Some of the letters were written from Johnson and Hardin Counties and describe life there.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Florinda Wakefield More papersCorrespondence from friends, family and her husband, the itinerant minister Thomas More.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Jake More PapersLawyer and State Chair of Iowa's Democratic State Central Committee. Speeches, correspondence, press releases, voter lists, financial reports, etc. all relating to More's involvement in Iowa's Democratic Party organization.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Alfred E. Moredock PapersPostcards, newsletters, talent brochures, programs, and other material relating to Chautauqua, with the majority dealing with the Swarthmore Chautauqua system.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Dave Morice PapersPoet, co-founder of the Actualist Movement, and perpetrator of many poetry marathons.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Morrell Meat Packing Company Collection PapersBusiness and personal correspondence, account books, statements, and other records, relating to the meat packing company particularly in Liverpool, England, and Ottumwa, Iowa; and papers, including some of Thomas Dove Foster.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

David Morrell PapersBorn in Ontario 1943, awarded a PhD in American literature by Pennsylvania State University in 1970, taught at Iowa from 1970 to 1986, retired to write. Perhaps best known for Rambo, the central character of his 1972 novel First Blood, which lead to the Rambo films starring Sylvester Stallone, Morrell has written numerous novels as well as screen- and teleplays. The growing collection of his papers includes video and audio tapes as well as research notes, correspondence, and manuscripts.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Arlene Morris papersClinical psychologist and University of Iowa alumna who was a member of the Des Moines Know Your Neighbor panel.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Velma Ford Morrison PapersAuthor of books for children, president of the Morrison Book Company. Correspondence, preliminary drafts and art work for her books including There's Only One You (1978) and Going On a Dig (1981).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

[Steven] Dow Mossman PapersWriter born in Cedar Rapids. Collection includes extensive pre-publication materials for Mossman's highly regarded novel, The Stones of Summer (1972) as well as drafts written while a student in the Writer's Workshop.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Frank Luther Mott PapersJournalism professor and dean, Mott is best remembered for his writing on the history of American newspapers. He also wrote numerous stories, plays and novels, draft of which are preserved in this collection. of which are preserved in this collection.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

E. Virginia Mowry papersNewton, Iowa teacher who later worked as an adminstrative assistant to James Cash Penney of J. C. Penney Company.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

L.E. Moyer PapersPhotos, appointment diaries, correspondence, and other material related to Moyer's responsibilities as a crewman and superintendent on the Redpath-Horner Chautauqua circuit, as well as manager of a touring play and later a partner in the Horner-Moyer booking agency.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Lois Baker Muehl papersUniversity of Iowa rhetoric professor who published children's books and taught English as a second language at refugee camps in Thailand, Korea, and China.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Lois Baker Muehl PapersManuscripts and correspondence related to her books for children including My Name Is-- (1959) and Hidden Year of Devlin Bates (1967).Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Ione Mulnix papersCorrespondence of a student at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City with her family in Dows, Iowa.Repository: Iowa Women's Archives

Iris Murdoch PapersBritish writer and philosopher. Manuscripts for most of her novels, plays, and poetry, primarily handwritten drafts in notebooks.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections

Charles H. Murphy PapersSpanish American War soldier from Red Oak, IA. Personal letters concerning the activities of Company M, 51st Infantry Regiment, Iowa Volunteers during the Spanish American War.Repository: University of Iowa Special Collections